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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
timeworn is an adjective meaning "repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse". It carries one recorded sense.
repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
“bromidic sermons”
“his remarks were trite and commonplace”
“hackneyed phrases”
“a stock answer”
“repeating threadbare jokes”
“parroting some timeworn axiom”
“the trite metaphor `hard as nails'”
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for timeworn come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.